Bounds Quote by Hilaire Belloc

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

— John Stott

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense…

— Umberto Eco

A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this…

— Oscar Romero

We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive…

— Thomas Paine

In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule.…

— Hans Kung

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it…

— Max Heindel

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for…

— Hans Kung

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it…

— John McGahern

The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.

— Pope Leo XIII

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on…

— Marie Corelli